Antibacterial properties of an oligo-acyl-lysyl hexamer targeting gram-negative species

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 56, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 4827-4832

  Zaknoon, Fadia ^a   Goldberg, Keren ^a   Sarig, Hadar ^a   Epand, Raquel F ^b   Epand, Richard M ^b   Mor, Amram ^a  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^b MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ERYTHROMYCIN; LIPOTEICHOIC ACID; OLIGOACYLLYSYL HEXAMER; PEPTIDE DERIVATIVE; PROTON; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL MEMBRANE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERICIDAL ACTIVITY; BINDING AFFINITY; CELL PERMEABILIZATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG SENSITIVITY; DRUG TARGETING; DRUG TRANSPORT; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE DELETION; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MEMBRANE DEPOLARIZATION; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; WILD TYPE;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ANTIMICROBIAL CATIONIC PEPTIDES; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CARRIER PROTEINS; CELL MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; ERYTHROMYCIN; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIA; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIA; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDES; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MUTATION; OLIGOPEPTIDES; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TEICHOIC ACIDS;

EID: 84865406421     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: 10986596     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AAC.00511-12     Document Type: Article

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